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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459061103321

Autore

Martinez Miranda J. <1967->

Titolo

Power at the roots [[electronic resource] ] : gentrification, community gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side / / Miranda J. Martinez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

1-282-92184-3

9786612921841

0-7391-4626-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

307.3/416097295

Soggetti

Gentrification - Puerto Rico

Community development - Puerto Rico

Social change - Puerto Rico

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1; Class Cultures in Conflict; 2; How to Tame a Neighborhood; 3; Bello Amanecer Borincano; 4; The Symbolic Lower East Side; 5; References

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about community gardens and the struggles to save them from gentrified redevelopment in New York City's Lower East Side. It is a vivid account of the community garden preservation movement, focusing on how working-class Puerto Rican and middle-class white gardeners waged the struggle against displacement by inserting themselves into local politics and development to change the calculus of real estate and housing policies.